Tweets keep Seahawks' fans guessing

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SEATTLE -- It started as a simple idea from his assistant to get the fans guessing whom the Seattle Seahawks will draft Thursday.

The song title part was Pete Carroll's idea. "We're gonna tweet songs about our picks," he posted on Twitter. "Try to figure them out."

Within minutes, the Twitter world was blowing up.

The first song clue Carroll tweeted was by Santana, "Soul Sacrifice."

People started tweeting like crazy, scrambling to look up lyrics, desperate to figure out the puzzle of who it could be. Did it mean Myron Rolle, who nixed the draft a year ago to be a Rhodes scholar and now is trying for a comeback? Maybe Iowa offensive tackle Bryan Bulaga, who suffered through a thyroid infection to resurface as a probable top pick.

Others tweeted: "with the song soul sacrifice, makes me think that you are looking for a trade partner for the 6th pick."

"I'm guessing the songs aren't in order of draft order. ... Carlos Dunlap from the Carlos Santana song?"

The flurry continued when the second song was tweeted: "Let The Beat Build," by Lil Wayne.

"One of them better be a Boy Named Suh!!" one person tweeted about Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.

• "Today Was A Fairytale" by Taylor Swift: "That means Taylor Mays and the fairytale is playing in his hometown." (USC safety Taylor Mays is from Seattle, is in Seattle to be with his parents for the draft and is a Carroll favorite.)

• "Jump Around" by House of Pain: "You didn't say what round, but the jump reference sounds like Eric Berry. Top broad and vert jump at combine." (Tennessee safety Eric Berry, who if taken likely ends the Seahawks' interest in Mays.)